Gerda Christophersen, ca 1913)

Gerda Amalie Holst Christophersen (1870–1947) was a Danish stage and film actress, singer, theatre director and writer. From 1911, she starred in numerous early Danish films, including 15 from Nordisk Film.^[1][2]

Biography

Born Gerda Amalie Holst Christophersen on 1 March 1870 in Copenhagen, Gerda Amalie Holst Christophersen was the daughter of the opera singer Harald Edvard Christensen and his wife Ernesta Felicita Simonsen, who also came from a family of musicians. Christophersen began her career as a stage actress in 1889 at the Casino Theatre, also taking small parts at the Royal Danish Theatre until the late 1990s.^[1]

Her singing career began in 1894 when her father took her on an operatic concert tour in which she sang excerpts from Faust. From 1897 to 1900 she toured with Albert Helsengreen's theatre company, gaining fame by singing the leads in Frøken Nitouche and Den skønne Galathea as well as Adele in Die Fledermaus.^[1]

Filmopgraphy

• 1911 Den farlige alder as Enkegrevinde Elsie von Lindtner
• 1911 Gøglerblod as Miranda, gøgler
• 1914 Gyldne lænker as Mercedes, Cartwright's, niece
• 1915 Det evige had as Jens' mother
• 1915 Helten fra Østafrika
• 1915 Hjertefejlen as Fru Holm
• 1915 To mand frem for en enke as Enkefru Fager
• 1916 Den hvide djævel as Asia
• 1916 Doktor Gar el Hama IV as Grevinde Sinclair
• 1916 Ene i verden as Komtesse Luigi, svindlerske
• 1916 Hvem er hun? as Fru Taylor
• 1916 Letsindighedens løn as Rosa, oberstens datter
• 1916 Paraplyen as Fru Holm
• 1917 Askepot
• 1917 Handlen med menneskeliv as Fru Gillemot
• 1917 Hvor sorgerne glemmes Fyrstinde as Sara von Staffenfeldt
• 1939 Genboerne as Madame Schmidt

Theatre career

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